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50-Lucky t1_ishp92p wrote

Reply to comment by Sungref_- in The empty man by me by Sungref_-

What did you think of the movie, it was really long but we never really saw any more of that 7 fingered giant skeleton guy, right?

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Videowulff t1_isht83b wrote

I loved it. Very otherworldly, twisted, and just a constant sense of wrongness.

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50-Lucky t1_ishzdus wrote

Yeah I'm not too proud that even in hindsight I'm certain I missed about half of what it was trying to show me, but for what I was following it had that very gripping "detextive" feeling on me where I would see the next thing and my theories went 📉, and I'm just uttering quietly ^^"what ^^the ^^fuuuuuuuuuu"

It was unnerving because of the questions I was asking myself, how deep does this go? What do they want? Is it real? Is it really real or just real? Is he in it already? Wait, who can he trust? Wtf is going on?

Wrongness is a good word. Anything in particular you recall having liked significantly from the movie?

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Videowulff t1_isi2sie wrote

I liked how everything felt BIGGER than what was going on. Like there were layers upon layers of that wrongness. Every time we think its something simple like a cult, we discover the next layer of a higher power in charge of everything.

It was almost lovecraftian with the sense of this otherworldly essence controlling this man's fate...

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50-Lucky t1_isi684b wrote

Yeah that's how I felt, like a practice or religion that has always been, as in, always.

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Sungref_- OP t1_ishu0t8 wrote

I like it! They hit you with the creature right away and that cascade that uneasy feeling to everything that happens after, like some Lovecraftian madness and mystery.

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50-Lucky t1_ishzyea wrote

Also with the creature it was unnerving how at first glance it's a skele, ok great it's a mountain, but then its positioning is weird, dead people on mountains dont sit up like that, also is it me or really big? Oh man it is big, wait... is it human? Yes? Wait.. no. No? Wtf is that thing? Do people visit here? Is it a shrine or just some alien miracle preserved and never found?

It was a "get out of there right now bro" scene, despite no clear danger.

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barbarkbarkov t1_isickwp wrote

It has my favourite horror movie scene of all time. The one involving a cabin. I loved the movie. It’s unapologetically itself and there’s really nothing quite like it. It’s not perfect in the slightest but I love it.

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50-Lucky t1_isictlm wrote

Could you link to the scene in the cabin? I dont recall. Do you mean at the start?

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NavyJack t1_isiiaxe wrote

Prolly means the one where the protagonist watches the video on the computer, shortly before being chased through the woods by the cultists

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PolarWater t1_isjrrx8 wrote

stares at campers

"Yeah, nope."

turns and fucking runs

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derpferd t1_isizr0z wrote

I loved it. It felt kinda slightly sorta like if David Fincher directed Jacob's Ladder.

It has the Fincher style and sense of deliberateness about it (and apparently the director did some behind the scenes work with Fincher so not surprising I guess).

But yeah, a noirish story about a detective on a case that becomes very personal for him is very Jacob's Ladder or Angel Heart and I love that shit

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PolarWater t1_isjrpd6 wrote

I feel like I didn't at all love the last fifteen minutes, but for what it's worth, I went on a fun, original, atmospheric, fascinating Lovecraftian ride.

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hopesksefall t1_iskj8vh wrote

You see it again very briefly and in flashes. Lots of tentacles versus a full-on arms.

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